2023.637: Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.637

People

Philips Koninck, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1619 - 1688 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/363021

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

20.5 × 32.2 cm (8 1/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: recto, lower left, brown ink, reinforced with black ink: WE. (Lugt 2617, mark of William Esdaile)
• label: recto, lower right, printed: Acquis de M. Defer / [handwritten on label in brown ink]: 16[?] francs
• inscription: verso, left, graphite: Horace Walpole's "Strawberry Hill" collection (sold in 1842) / Collection of Wm Young Ottley / Keeper of Prints in the British Museum / author of Ottley's facsimiles of rare prints / John Barnard collection / Esdaile collection
  
  [in another hand]: M. Defer Collection / Strawberry Hill Collection 1842 / ? / ? / Rembrandt van Rhyn 1651
  
  [in a third hand]: Lord James Butters Coll. 1842 / Paris sale of ?
  
  [in a fourth hand, in ink?]: WE: 8
• collector's mark: verso, bottom center, brown ink: X.A.D. (Lugt 97, mark of Alcide Donnadieu)
• inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: WE P 91.1011 (?)
• label: verso, center right, octagonal piece of paper adhered to primary support, stamped with ring of text
  : PARTI[?] ST. [?]
• inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Elijah + the Prophets of Baal ? ? / 1 Kings xviii, 22-39
• collector's mark: verso, upper center, brown ink: 16 -- # / WYO [in ligature, with horizontal lines above and below] (Lugt 2662, mark of William Young Ottley)
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: HN X [superscript, underlined]: vx
• inscription: verso, bottom center, graphite: - +
• inscription: verso, upper center, brown ink [covered with opaque white]: LB (?)
• inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 29 P.7. / M. Gersaint / ? / ?
• watermark: center: LARD (?)
• collector's mark: verso, upper center, purple ink: M.J.P. (Lugt 1880, mark of Marsden Jasael Perry)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William Young Ottley, Thatcham and London (Lugt 2662). William Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617). Alcide Donnadieu, London (Lugt 97). Marsden Jasael Perry, Providence, Rhode Island (Lugt 1880). Seymour Slive, Cambridge. Corinne Cuellar, Zurich; to George Abrams, Boston, 2013, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Professor Seymour Slive

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.637

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Franklin W. Robinson, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH, 1973), cat. 25, pp. 64-5, repr.

Exhibition History

• One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 09/05/1973 - 10/14/1973; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 10/26/1973 - 12/03/1973; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/14/1973 - 01/25/1974

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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